By Linda Hamilton, RN, BSN
Attorney General Lori Swanson deserves the gratitude of all Minnesotans for hitting the brakes on the possible Sanford Health-Fairview Health Services merger that meant a takeover of our University of Minnesota Medical Center.
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MNA Legislative Update, April 12, 2013
Standards of Care Update
On Wednesday the revised bill, focusing on transparency for patients and a Minnesota Department of Health study of the correlation between staffing and patient outcomes, passed the House Ways and Means Committee, completing the committee process in the House and moving on to a floor vote.
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NOTES ON NURSING
Tentative Agreement for St. Lukes Nurses in Duluth The Minnesota Nurses Association announced late Tuesday that Duluth nurses came to a tentative contract agreement with St.
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Incredible show of solidarity as 150 nurses, family members, and fellow union members greet the St. Luke’s bargaining team prior to negotiations.
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Sanford Health has a lot of money and a lot of hospitals, but one more thing they’re bringing to Minnesota is scrutiny.
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NOTES ON NURSING
Better Staffing Would Help Hospitals Fail to Take Simple Measures to Thwart Deadly Infections The culprit is a strain of a spore-forming bacterium known as Clostridium difficile, or C.
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Standards of Care Update
MNA nurses and representatives continue to meet with legislators to update them on the goals of the Standards of Care Act.
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KSTP-TV reports the final audit confirms what Minnesota Nurses have long argued-that the healthcare system in the state is need of greater transparency and some of Minnesota’s HMOs owe the taxpayers a refund.
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Kathleen M. Harrington Mayo
Government Relations, Chair 200 First Street SW Rochester, MN 55905
Dear Ms. Harrington:
Thank you for bringing your Operations staff to meet with leaders from SEIU and UNITE HERE last Friday to discuss the Mayo Destination Medical Center (DMC) and the related legislative proposal.
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LABOR UPDATES
Harry Kelber: 1914 – 2013 Harry Kelber spent 80 years as a labor activist.
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NOTES ON NURSING
Fatigue is Pervasive in the Health Care Industry; Directly Linked to On-the-job Errors Sixty-nine percent of healthcare professionals surveyed said that fatigue had caused them to feel concern over their ability to perform during work hours.
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Nurses support Attorney General Review of Sanford-Fairveiw
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Jan Rabbers
(office) 651-414-2861
(cell) 612-860-8858
jan.rabbers@mnnurses.org
Rick Fuentes
(office) 651-414-2863
(cell) 612-741-0662
rick.fuentes@mnnurses.org
(St.
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